Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 120, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 January 1991 — Page 13

Banner Graphic Greencastle, Putnam County, Thursday, January 24,1991

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The 1990 year proved to be a busy one for the Putnam County Soil & Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors. Members of the board of supervisors are: Mike Clodfelter, chairman; Jack Berry, vice chairman; Mike Rissler, secretary; Max Nichols, Gene Clodfelter and David McCammack, assoc. supervisor. One of the most successful activities the Board of Supervisors was involved in was a Long Range Plan meeting held in August at McCormick’s Creek State Park at the Canyon Inn. The meeting included various leaders of the community along with the Board. The input from all that attended proved to be invaluable towards our goal of developing a Long Range Plan for the Putnam County Soil & Water Conservation District. THE YEAR BEGAN with holding the annual meeting in January. We presented Jack Berry with the 1990 Conservationist of the Year Award. Jesse Cox was presented the 1990 Woodland Conservationist of the Year Award. Later on in the year, we held a reception for Jesse Cox to award him with the 1989 Putnam County SWCD

Soil specialist speaker for Jan. 29th annual meeting of Putnam County SWCD

Soil conservation education specialist Robert Guillaume of the Purdue University Agronomy Department will be the speaker Tuesday, Jan. 29 when the Putnam County Soil and Water Conservation District holds its annual meeting. The noon luncheon meeting will be held in the Community Building on the Putnam County Fairgrounds. Cost of the luncheon is sl. The public is invited. Guillaume will speak on the topic, “Capitalizing on Your Assets, and Not Your Liabilities.” A short business meeting will also be a part of the activities. GUILLAUME IS assigned to southwestern Indiana as a soil conservation education specialist. For 15 years, he taught agriculture at the secondary

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Award of Merit and the Goodyear/NACD Conservation award. Allen Royer, District Forester, presented Cox the 1989 Sycamore Trails Woodland Management Award. This year we held a Contractor’s Luncheon to show our appreciation to the many contractor’s in and around the community for a job well done. Educational Activities that we sponsored this year were: An exhibit at the Putnam County 4H Fair; A Farm Fish Pond

level and economics at the college level in Indiana. A public speaker, writer and national TV guest, Guillaume was raised in northern Kentucky. After high school, he attended North Carolina State University to major in agronomy, while playing college football and baseball. HE TRANSFERRED to Morehead State University in Kentucky, lettering in football and being elected charter president of National Fraternity. He received his bachelor of science degree in agriculture education, with a minor in economics, in 1972. Guillaume received his master’s degree from Morehead State in 1974. He resides in Salem, Ind., with his wife Nancy and three children.

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Management meeting; and a 4-H Field Day for Parke, Vermillion and Putnam Counties; And we held our Annual Conservation Expo at the Marvin Evens Walnut Creek Farms on West Walnut Street which approximately 250 people attended; Sponsored an exhibit at the Putnam County 4H Fair; Distributed leaflets to area churches for Soil Stewardship Week and also promoted this event on the local radio station; Joined with other counties in West Central Indiana

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ROBERT GUILLAUME Guest speaker

on an ad campaign to promote Soil Conservation on network television. WE ATTENDED the following educational meetings this year: The Area 111 SWCD Association annual meeting in Montgomery and Parke counties; the Area 111 SWCD Association supervisors workshop conducted in Putnam County at the fairgrounds; The State Soil and Water Conservation District annual conference at Purdue University; and The

T by 2000: Strategy for battling soil problems T by 2000 provides cost-share assistance for erosion control structural measures on critically eroding cropland which results in off-site sedimentation damages detrimental to the public good. THE OFF-SITE damages are usually the result of sediment filling County road ditches or sediment entering public waters. When corrected, these damages require the expenditure of general tax revenues for sediment clean-up. T by 2000 technical assistance is provided by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Soil Conservation Service. A T by 2000 cost-share project was completed this past spring in Jefferson Township on farms owned by Kimball Larkin and Wally and Rick Parker. This project consisted of five water and sediment control basins (WASCOB’s) and 1,335 feet of grassed waterway. Total cost of the project was $17,302 with 80 percent of this cost coming from T by 2000 cost-share funds. Application of these soil conserving structures in conjunction with a conservation tillage system are going to save an estimated 700 tons of soil per year on this watershed. ANOTHER T BY 2000 cost-share project was completed this past summer in Marion Township on farms owned by E. E. Vanßibber and Gary Satterfield. This project involved the construction of 10 WASCOB’s. Total cost of this project was $21,293, resulting in soil savings of more than 300 tons annually.

State Legislative breakfast, conducted at the Columbia Club in Indianapolis, sponsored by the State SWCD Association. We assisted many groups in coordinating activities: The Indiana State Forage Council in Hay Day, held in June; the Area 111 Association of Conservation Districts with the regional tillage meeting, held in March; the Putnam County Plan Commission with developing its comprehensive plan; and assisted the Little Walnut Creek Conservancy District with seeding wildlife habitat plantings. We also worked with the Extension Service on the Johnsongrass Field Day and the test plots. The year’s Conservation Speech contest winner, which we sponsored along with Farm Bureau, Inc., was Hope Wagle. Hope attends Greencastle High School and she represented the district at the area contest held in February 1990. We held a public meeting on Stream Bank Stabilization and Water Quality. We approved two projects for erosion control and improved water quality which will receive T by 2000 funding. They are: James McGaughey Col. 4, back page, this section